The articles for Spring 2020

Unit 1:

01 ‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice By Olga Khazan 02

05 Workism Is Making Americans Miserable By Derek Thompson 12

06 The Working Classroom By Malcolm Harris 18

07 Then Again By Jill Ciment 22

11 Gossip is a Social Skill - Not a Character Flaw By Frank T. McAndrew 30

18 ‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America By Joe Pinsker 57

19 The Resilience Paradox: Why We Often Get Resilience Wrong By Brock Bastian 59

Unit 2:

04 The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Help Explain Trump Support By Bobby Azarian 10

14 Relationships are More Important Than Ambition By Emily Esfahani Smith 45

16 The Reason Many Ultrarich People Aren’t Satisfied with Their Wealth By Joe Pinsker 51

22 Power Causes Brain Damage By Jerry Useem 70

27 Is It Time to Give Up On Your Dreams? By Theo Tsaousides 82

25 Economics: The Discipline That Refuses to Change By Antara Haldar 78

32 Why Speaking to Yourself in the Third Person Makes you Wiser By David Robson 96

Unit 3:

31 Psychologists say shame is an essential part of being human By Cassie Werber 94

17 Naked and Afraid By Martha Nussbaum 54

11 Five Lies Our Culture Tells By David Brooks 35

38 Third-Place Policy Puts Starbucks In Uncomfortable Position...By Ariel Knoebel 111

10 How to Accept a Compliment By Carolyn Bucior 33

12 On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs By David Graeber 37

Unit 4:

13 The science of influencing people: six ways to win an argument By David Robson 41

21 Why It Pays to Be a Jerk By Jerry Useem 65

40 Corporate Stockholm Syndrome By James Ullrich 115

24 Worlds Apart By T. M. Luhrmann 76

35 Is Our Western Happiness Fetish Causing Depression? By Brock Bastian 104

33 Attraction will always defy ‘social justice’ By Karol Markowicz 99